Zend is developing a framework, that seems to be trying to compete with Rails, while at the same time being "enterprise" friendly. I truly hope they build something useful for fast development, but I worry about the "enterprise" focus. I'm afraid it'll slow things down, and make them focus on the kinds of features I don't give a (sorry) shit about.
I watched the webcast to get to see some code, which is at the end, and you can't fastforward. The code examples start around minute 30, so just let it run.
The code examples I saw are interesting, but not convincing yet. So I can get an OO wrapper to a table. Alright. Mmmm... So they have a better mail() function. OK. Still not particularly exciting.. I hope they get this out before I switch to Rails. So I have a new nice search.
All fair, but none of the code examples make me excited about a framework. They're nice functions. But where's the framework? Where's the easy getting-started with a standard website?
Perhaps it'll be really cool. I sure hope so.